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Committee lays over Rep. Jones' bill to narrow jaywalking penalties after broad testimony
Summary
Representative Jones' proposal to decriminalize certain forms of jaywalking was laid over for possible inclusion after testimony from disability advocates and bicycling groups, and concerns from police organizations were noted.
The House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee on March 26 laid over House File 1509, a bill from Representative Jones that would limit law-enforcement citation authority for some jaywalking behaviors.
Representative Jones told the committee the intent is to "right size" the statute so ordinary, low-risk pedestrian crossings are not criminalized: "If literally everyone is breaking the law and subject to enforcement, I think something is fundamentally wrong," she said. The bill would decriminalize three scenarios specified by the author: crossing during steady yellow or red…
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